Costa Rica’s former president Jose Maria Figueres led the preliminary vote count in Sunday’s presidential election, with former finance minister Rodrigo Chaves set to face him in a run-off.

Italian lawmakers on Friday have failed for a sixth time to elect a new president amid a lack of consensus among party leaders.

Chileans have headed to the polls to vote in the Andean nation's most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights.

Honduras' former first lady Xiomara Castro wins the country's presidential election, and the ruling party's candidate concedes defeat.

Chileans go to the polls or a first round of a divisive presidential election, following a campaign scarred by two years of intense social protests.

The deputy Yemeni FM decries the UN Human Rights Council’s vote to ditch its group of experts, saying the world body only understands the language of money rather than law.

Germans go to the polls in a national election too close to call, with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

Thousands of people have marched and staged rallies in the US capital, Washington DC and several other cities across the country.

Malaysia’s embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin refuses to resign amid mounting calls from opposition lawmakers to step down.

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has resigned, one week after he lost a vote of no-confidence.